MUMBAI: The television industry has played a big role in glorifying the virtue of Indian culture through the majority of it's shows that are aired through the main entertainment TV channels and through popular TV series.
The classic feature of most of these series is how their plot is highly influenced by the legendary Indian mythological stories and epic dramas like 'Ramayana' and 'Mahabharata', such that the high-voltage dramatic incidents of those drag along references from these age-old stories in order to stress on the fact that no matter what situation shows up, goodness will always triumph over evil!
Talking about mythological shows, we have witnessed the portrayal of iconic mythological characters on the small-screen for ages now and references on the same have been drawn from Mahabharata, Ramayana and other local folklores to hype-up the spirit of creativity.
Out of all the known characters, there's this prominent infatuation and inclination which the TV and the entertainment industry at large has towards the 8th incarnation of Lord Vishnu - Lord Krishna and the existence of numerous Hindi movies and TV serials depicting the fore-mentioned mythological character's life-story are the living evidence of the same!
It does seem like owing to Lord Krishna's personality, as per the written historic texts and scriptures, there won't be any cease to his character's portrayal's hype and also, owing to the fact that Indians are very religious at large and are particular in following the stories of such demi-gods, whom many of them still aspire to witness in-person, atleast once in their lifetime.
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Without any further ado, today, let's take a look at the telly actors who have depicted the role of adult Krishna through various Hindi series, which were either linked to Mahabharata or who's plots purely revolved around the life story of Lord Krishna:
1. Sumedh Mudgalkar
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Actor-dancer Sumedh Mudgalkar made his television debut with the Channel V TV serial Dil Dosti Dance. However, his breakthrough role came along with Star Bharat's RadhaKrishn, wherein he played and nailed the lead-character of Lord Krishna and had to emphasise on Krishna's lover-story with his childhood love 'Radha' and on why couldn't the duo end up together despite being madly in love with each other.
Sumedh's portrayal of Krishna garnered him immense household fame and the actor is highly lauded for nailing the mischievous attitude and body-language of Lord Krishna. In 2019, he won the Indian Telly Award for 'Best Onscreen Couple (Jury)' with his co-star Mallika Singh for the same show. In the same year, he also won the Gold Award for 'Best Actor Debut' for depicting the role of Krishna.
2. Samvardaman D. Banerjee
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Television actor Samvardaman D. Banerjee is known for his works in Hindi, Bengali and Telugu cinema. He debuted in Bollywood with the 1983 movie Adi Shankaracharya and kept on bagging various roles in different movies. However, his break-through role came through his television debut role of playing the character of Lord Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's superhit television series Krishna in 1993. For most of the millennials, Banerjee was recognised as the patent Krishna on the small-screen for a very long period.
3. Meghan Jadhav
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Meghan made his television debut in 2006 and portrayed different roles in many Indian mythological shows in a loop. However, he's best known for nailing his role in Colors TV's 2008–09 show Jai Shri Krishna, wherein he played the titular role of Shri Krishna.
4. Nitish Bharadwaj
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Indian television and film actor, director, screenwriter, producer, veterinary doctor and former Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha - Nitish Bharadwaj specializes in portraying all roles related to Lord Vishnu (including several of his other poignant avatars who were showcased in B.R. Chopra's other great works like Vishnu Puran) and gained humungous fame for his role as Lord Krishna in Chopra's 1988 television series Mahabharat. He in fact debuted on small-screen with Krishna's portrayal in Chopra's Mahabharat and his performance was loved and appreciated by the audience.
5. Saurabh Raj Jain
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Saurabh has been the current day's most impactful and charismatic on-screen Lord Krishna, who's role he got to portray through Star Plus' epic period drama Mahabharat, that went on-air in 2013. Since Mahabharat made it's was as a TV series in 2013 after a huge gap of one and a half decade since the mythological incident's last on-screen display, this 2013 version of the epic Indian saga grabbed mass viewership for it's realistic action-scenes with the help of HD technology, the portrayal of the male-protagonist's character of Pandav Putra 'Arjuna' through actor Shaheer Sheikh and of course, the exemplary performance of Saurabh through Lord Krishna's supporting role. Saurabh has even described this role of his as the 'game-changer' for his career.
6. Saurabh Pandey
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Indian Television and Bollywood actor Saurabh Pandey debuted in the Television industry as the lead in Siddharth Basu's first Fiction TV show Jiya Jale, that aired on 9X TV in 2007. After playing various roles for various TV shows, Saurabh finally bagged his first Indian mythological role in 2015 by playing the role of Lord Krishna in Sony TV's Suryaputra Karn.
Source: Internet
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